00:00How The Epstein Files Prompted a Swarm of AI Photos of US and European Politicians
00:06Were you fooled by AI-generated photos of The Epstein Files?
00:13The US Justice Department has released more than 3 million pages of files
00:17related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
00:21Across social media, mounting speculation and unanswered questions
00:25around Epstein's activities have opened the door to disinformation about the rich and powerful across the globe.
00:32Images such as this one allegedly showing New York Mayor Zoran Mamdani alongside his mother Mira Nair,
00:38Gisle Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos have spread across the internet.
00:45But off the back of inconsistencies in these photos, we decided to run the image through Google Gemini,
00:50which detected a synth ID.
00:52This invisible watermark was developed by Google to identify AI content generated with its tools.
00:59Mamdani's name is mentioned in the files five times,
01:02all connected to newspaper clippings rather than any potential wrongdoing.
01:06These images began to emerge after Mamdani's mother, Mira Nair, was mentioned in The Epstein Files
01:12in relation to an afterparty for her film Amelia, which was hosted at Gisle Maxwell's New York townhouse in 2009.
01:19The messages indicate Epstein did not attend the screening.
01:23Another fake image of Epstein with his arms around Rathom UK leader Nigel Farage spread across social media.
01:29It was even shared by a local branch of the UK's governing Labour Party.
01:34When we put the image through AI generators, they were unable to give a conclusive response.
01:39But in the millions of files, there is also no evidence that Farage and Epstein directly corresponded or met.
01:44And on closer look, the lighting of the image appears illogical.
01:48Labour has also since deleted the photo after realising it was AI generated.
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